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Orlando

/ɔːˈlæn.dəʊ//ɔɹˈlæn.doʊ/

Orlando proper noun: a male given name from Italian.

Proper noun

Orlando

  1. A male given name from Italian.
    • St. Oswald's boys were not called Ben. St Oswald's boys were called Leon, or Jasper, or Rufus or Sebastian. A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint.2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99
  2. A surname from Italian derived from the given name.
  3. A city, the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States; see Orlando, Florida.
    • “This pertains to employees in DC, NY, Las Vegas and Orlando. TFG continues to pay chefs and restaurants managers responsible for operating the community kitchens,” the company said.2020 May 15, Parija Kavilanz, “Why this chef keeps showing up at disaster zones”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2020

Origin of Orlando

From Italian Orlando (“Roland”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiland. The city in Florida has gone by the name since 1857, perhaps in honor of the soldier Orlando Reeves, whom the Seminoles killed there in 1835. Previously, it had been settled in 1844 as Jernigan. Doublet of Roland.

Words that rhyme with Orlando

Questions about Orlando

What does Orlando mean?
Orlando means a male given name from Italian.
What part of speech is Orlando?
Orlando is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Orlando?
Orlando is pronounced /ɔɹˈlæn.doʊ/ (US).

Words near Orlando in the dictionary

  1. orl fly
  2. Orla
  3. Orland
  4. Orland Park
  5. orlandiite
  6. Orlando
  7. Orlandoite
  8. orlay
  9. orle
  10. Orleanian
  11. Orleanism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Orlando (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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